Mr. Speaker, I know that the member believes in democracy. I suppose he believes in parliament because he is here as a member of parliament. I know he believes in MP pensions because I understand he is taking it.
Parliament is here to debate the issues of the day. As he and others have observed, our right to debate in depth the full implications of the Nisga'a agreement was cut off by the Liberal government yesterday. Therefore, we are going to use the time today to debate not only this bill, but the bills that we think we should be able to debate in this place. That is my reason and it stands on its own.